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That bowling performance was utter gash.
There's a huge silver lining, which is that every other game went our way. So we're actually in a slightly better position than we were at start of play. But how have we thrown that one away. No balls, silly wides, we didn't even make them beat us at times, just completely threw it away!
150 off the last 10. Bloody hell. Somehow they have to bounce back for Sunday
That was a ridiculous defeat even by glamorgans standards !
Hopefully Timm comes back in for MciIlroy. I'd be putting Crane back in for Gorvin if the pitch shows any hint of spin aswell.
Really missed crane. Is he fit?Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
I'm not sure. The Glamorgan website doesn't even seem to do a match preview before games now. Some comments on Facebook seem to suggest Timmy and Crane are being rested/not picked rather than injured.
that's 2 games we have lost to Surrey which we should have won. why didn't Kellaway bowl tonight? don't know who is in the squad or what the contract terms are but there's a lot of crap to flush out for sure.
Crane was named in the original team I think and was replaced by McIlroy just before “kick off”, I’ve not seen a reason as to why.
That's a shame, he may well have made the difference
Glamorgan in trouble against their former bowler DeLange chasing 170 odd to win.
Another very poor performance. Its turning into a typical Glammy T20 campaign.
Yes, I’ve not been too critical of some of Glamorgan’s losses to teams like Surrey and Hampshire, but that was poor today - something of a bottle job I’m afraid.
Poor in the field, and fell apart with the bat. Glos did have lady luck with them today though. Every six they hit seemed to drop just over the boundary, and winning the toss in that heat was a big bonus.
Looks like Sussex, the team that has hammered us twice may well finish below us, while the Kent side we made look like amateurs will take our top 4 spot from us.
I think Cooke needs to come back in for Horton. Ingram moved up to three in the order. Drop Kellaway down to six.
Uncanny ability to melt away when some character required. The batters who you rely on can’t help finding any fielders with no one else around them within a mile, and today’s tail could barely go through the motions
Horton has been really poor, not just with the bat but with the gloves too.
Longer term, I'd say Smale is in pole position to take over when Cooke eventually stops playing.
It certainly is. Pathetic end to the season. 3 consecutive defeats. All quite easily. After some really impressive wins. So annoying. But as you say classic glammy!
Yes agree, our record in T20 is quite appalling!
A quick glance at wiki shows we haven't qualified for the quarters since 2017. The worst run of all the counties.
I'm still hurting after that awful bowling display on Friday night. let's face it there's not much talent in that squad compared to other sides and nobody leading by example. Carlson has been poor of late and Horton not worthy of selection. the business model doesn't permit any star performers and our expectations should perhaps reflect that.
I'd agree with that but you're the one who's always running the team down on here. We won at Taunton and thrashed Kent but there wasn't a peep out of you, then a freakish stand took the game away from us at Hampshire and you're straight on here saying how crap we are. I know you care but it's an odd way of showing it.
What's been frustrating this time round is that it feels like we're not that far off it. Key players have lost form (Cooke and Carlson) or been injured (Crane and Kerr) and games have been thrown away due to a lack of belief, experience, game management or whatever but we're still not out of it. I'm sure every team can look back at losses and think 'if only' but we've had a few of those. Would we have lost Friday's game with Timm and Crane playing (and without Mr Magoo making the call on Tom Curran's run out)? Surely not.
Today was poor though. Some muddled thinking all round, nine overs of spin going at ten an over but Douthwaite didn't get to bowl his four and the shot selection left a lot to be desired too, as Dave Blue said. It's a shame because there are positives to be taken (Leonard was outstanding again today) and the players look to be giving everything but it seems like we'll come up short again.
point taken and Leonard, Tribe, Gorvin, Ingram have impressed.
I watch Glammy a lot online (red ball and white ball) and my first game at the old Arms Park was in the 60's. I remember seeing 2 Championship wins, old John Player league etc. etc.
What is so frustrating is the inconsistency and you have a great bowling display at Taunton and that fiasco at the Oval on Friday night which I witnessed first hand. The future is clearly bringing through young players but having a balanced team with experienced campaigners. The batsman did very well at the Oval in the main but were let down by very poor bowling. Yesterday the batting missed a getable total at home.
We don't know why Northeast isn't in the T20 squad but he did well in this format last year.
This one is over now and you hope that the success in the 4 day game continues.
The one day cup?
I don't envy the financial team trying to balance the books down there and like football results and performances bring the crowds in.
The coaching team however need to explain a lot!
I don't want to write our T20 obituary too early, because we could still qualify. We've done some good things this year, I like the decision to put Kellaway at 3 playing attacking cricket, it shows good intent. But as the games progress and your championship opener in Tribe is scoring runs for fun, and Kellaway isn't quite firing then surely it becomes obvious that you move tribe in to open and drop Carlson to 3.
Douthwaite has looked great with the bat this year, but can't get higher than 8. Ingram scoring for fun at 4, so gets dropped to 5 to fit Horton in. It's just become muddled, dare I say it's almost become a parody of what was trying to be achieved at first.
I was critical of Carlson's decision to bowl Kellaway for that over against Somerset. It seemed equally stupid not to give him at least an over against Surrey when out seamers were getting battered. Carlson's individual fielding has also plumbed the depths in recent games.
We've done a lot right, as evidenced by the fact we were in top 2 contention until 3/4 of the way through game 12 of 14. Just a shame a bit of sloppiness seems to be leading to the wheels falling off at the end.
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